Marxist feminism is a philosophical variant of feminism that incorporates and extends Marxist theory. Marxist feminism analyzes the ways in which women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property. According to Marxist feminists,women's liberation can only be achieved by dismantling the capitalist systems in which they contend much of women's labor is uncompensated. Marxist feminists extend traditional Marxist analysis by applying it to unpaid domestic labor and sex relations.
Feminist sociology is an interdisciplinary exploration of gender and power throughout society. Here,it uses conflict theory and theoretical perspectives to observe gender in its relation to power,both at the level of face-to-face interaction and reflexivity within social structures at large. Focuses include sexual orientation,race,economic status,and nationality.
Intersectionality is a feminist analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these factors include gender,caste,sex,race,ethnicity,class,sexuality,religion,disability,height,age,weight,species and physical appearance. These intersecting and overlapping social identities may be both empowering and oppressing. However,little good-quality quantitative research has been done to support or undermine the practical uses of intersectionality.
May Elias Ziadeh was a Lebanese-Palestinian poet,essayist,and translator,who wrote many different works both in Arabic and in French.
Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod was an American sociologist who made major contributions to world-systems theory and urban sociology.
Beverley Skeggs is a British sociologist,noted as one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world. Currently,she works as a "Distinguished Professor" in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University,developing a Center for Social Inequalities in the North West of England. She continues to run the "Economics of Care" theme at the International Inequalities centre at the London School of Economics (LSE) and is a visiting professor at Goldsmiths University. She has been the head of two of the UK's leading Sociology Departments,at the University of Manchester and Goldsmiths,as well as co-director of Lancaster's Women's Studies. In addition,she played a part in transforming Britain's oldest sociology journal,The Sociological Review,into an independent foundation devoted to opening up critical social science and supporting social scientists.
Smadar Lavie is a Mizrahi U.S.-Israeli anthropologist,author,and activist. She specializes in the anthropology of Egypt,Israel and Palestine,emphasizing issues of race,gender and religion. Lavie is a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California,Davis,and a visiting scholar at the Department of Ethnic Studies,University of California,Berkeley. Lavie received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (1989) and spent nine years as assistant and associate professor of anthropology at the University of California,Davis. She authored The Poetics of Military Occupation,receiving the 1990 Honorable Mention of the Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing,and Wrapped in the Flag of Israel:Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture receiving the 2015 Honorable Mention of the Association of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award Competition. Wrapped in the Flag of Israel's first edition was also one of the four finalists in the 2015 Clifford Geertz Book Award Competition of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. She also co-edited Creativity/Anthropology and Displacement,Diaspora,and Geographies of Identity. Lavie won the American Studies Association's 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize for her article,“Staying Put:Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa,”published in Anthropology and Humanism (2011). In 2013,Smadar Lavie won the “Heart at East”Honor Plaque for lifetime service to Mizraḥi communities in Israel-Palestine.
Vron Ware is a British academic and visiting professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was previously a Professor at Kingston University,editor of Searchlight magazine from 1981 to 1983,and worked as a freelance journalist until 1987,when she co-founded the Women's Design Service. She taught cultural geography at the University of Greenwich from 1992 to 1999,sociology and gender studies at Yale University from 1999 to 2005,and was senior research fellow at the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the Open University from 2008 to 2014.
Human trafficking is the trade of humans,most commonly for the purpose of forced labour,sexual slavery,or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. Mexico is a large source,transit,and destination country for victims of human trafficking.
Burhan Ghalioun is a French-Syrian professor of sociology at the Universitéde Paris III Sorbonne University in Paris,and the first chairman of the Syrian opposition Transitional National Council (SNC). He was named chairman on 29 August 2011. His chairmanship was criticized for his perceived closeness to the Muslim Brotherhood,his early reluctance to arm opposition forces,and what opponents called the autocratic nature of his leadership. On 17 May 2012,feeling he had become an increasingly divisive figure for the council,Ghalioun resigned.
Jadaliyya ("dialectic") is an independent ezine founded in 2010 by the Arab Studies Institute (ASI) to cover the Arab World and the broader Middle East. It publishes articles in Arabic,French,English and Turkish,and is run primarily on a volunteer basis by an editorial team,and an expanding pool of contributors that includes academics,journalists,activists and artists.
Women migrant workers from developing countries engage in paid employment in countries where they are not citizens. While women have traditionally been considered companions to their husbands in the migratory process,most adult migrant women today are employed in their own right. In 2017,of the 168 million migrant workers,over 68 million were women. The increase in proportion of women migrant workers since the early twentieth century is often referred to as the "feminization of migration".
Mardin Artuklu University (MAU) is a university located in Mardin,Turkey. It was established in 2007.
Minoo Moallem is an Iranian-born American educator,author,and scholar. She is a Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Her academic specialties are transnational and postcolonial feminist studies,religious nationalism and transnationalism,consumer culture,immigration and diaspora studies,Middle Eastern Studies and Iranian films,cultural politics. She is best known for her work on Islamic nationalism and fundamentalism as byproducts of colonial modernity and modernization of patriarchies.
AbdelRahman Mansour is an internet activist,journalist and human rights defender. In 2011,he came up with the idea of turning Egypt's National Police Day on 25 January into a Facebook event,"Revolution of the Egyptian People",sparking the online campaign for pro-democracy demonstrations that later snowballed into a popular uprising.
Reproductive labor or work is often associated with care giving and domestic housework roles including cleaning,cooking,child care,and the unpaid domestic labor force. The term has taken on a role in feminist philosophy and discourse as a way of calling attention to how women in particular are assigned to the domestic sphere,where the labor is reproductive and thus uncompensated and unrecognized in a capitalist system. These theories have evolved as a parallel of histories focusing on the entrance of women into the labor force in the 1970s,providing an intersectionalist approach that recognizes that women have been a part of the labor force since before their incorporation into mainstream industry if reproductive labor is considered.
Homonationalism is often seen as the favorable association between a nationalist ideology and LGBT people or their rights,but is further described as a systematic oppression of queer,racialized,and sexualized groups in an attempt to support neoliberal structures and ideals. The term was originally proposed by the researcher in gender studies Jasbir K. Puar in 2007 to refer to the processes by which neoliberal and capitalist power structures line up with the claims of the LGBT community in order to justify racist,xenophobic and aporophobic positions,especially against Muslims,basing them on prejudices that immigrants are homophobic and that Western society is egalitarian. Thus,sexual diversity and LGBT rights are used to sustain political stances against immigration,becoming increasingly common among far-right parties. In Terrorist Assemblages, Puar describes homonationalism as a "form of sexual exceptionalism [dependent on the] segregation and disqualification of racial and sexual others" from the dominant image of a particular society,most often discussed within an American framework.
Mary Romero is an American sociologist. She is Professor of Justice Studies and Social Inquiry at Arizona State University,with affiliations in African and African American Studies,Women and Gender Studies,and Asian Pacific American Studies. Before her arrival at ASU in 1995,she taught at University of Oregon,San Francisco State University,and University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Professor Romero holds a bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in Spanish from Regis College in Denver,Colorado. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Colorado. In 2019,she served as the 110th President of the American Sociological Association.
Femonationalism,sometimes known as feminationalism,is the association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas,especially when driven by xenophobic motivations.
Lisa Hajjar is an American sociologist. She is a professor and department chair at the University of California,Santa Barbara sociology department,and a co-editor and contributor at the online magazine Jadaliyya.
